Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development announced that the registration for the third edition of the ‘Pitch@Palace UAE’ competition, aimed at providing Emirati entrepreneurs with an opportunity to pitch their innovative projects before a global audience in Abu Dhabi has now been extended to August 20. Mouza Al Nasri, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Khalifa Fund, emphasised ...

Bloomberg North Korea greeted US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s latest trip to Asia with twin signals of frustration: test-firing missiles and withholding top diplomats from a chance at nuclear talks. Kim Jong-un’s regime fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, the second such test in less than a week. The launches ...

Bloomberg Russian authorities raided the homes of people involved in a Moscow demonstration, stepping up a crackdown that threatens to be the harshest since officials crushed large-scale protests in 2012. Interior Ministry officers and Federal Security Service agents were searching for information on electronic devices that proved participation in the unauthorised protest or how it was organised, the state-run Tass ...